Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 31
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| "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
| reported by merchants in special account status 1/ as of 8/3/01
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| (In Contracts)
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| | | Open Futures
| | Call Cotton Based New York | Contracts - New York
| | | Cotton Exchange
|Futures |-------------------------------------------|----------------------
| | Unfixed | Change | Unfixed | Change | At | Change
|Based | Call | From | Call | From | Close | From
| | Sales | Prev. | Purchs. | Prev. | | Prev.
|On: | | Week | | Week | 8/3/01 | Week
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|October '01 1,278 -94 1290 175 4,242 173
|December '01 9,285 28 16,032 96 40,396 2,222
|March '02 19,457 -45 9,307 0 7,152 206
|May '02 11,306 -78 3,108 55 4,821 91
|July '02 17,106 -212 570 1 3,500 94
|October '02 1,914 64 140 -11 193 0
|December '02 1,693 -48 154 -50 2,637 11
|March '03 248 30 0 0 120 0
|May '03 356 59 0 0 18 0
|July '03 376 30 0 0 0 0
|December '03 80 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 63,099 -266 30,601 266 63,079 2,797
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|This report is published by the Commission's Division of Economic Analysis.
|If you have any questions concerning this report, call Vincent G. Varisano,
|Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (212) 488-1311.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|8/9/01
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